Whip-lock.



No. 875,753. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908. G. H. VOELKER & T. B. LYNCH, JR.

WHIP LOCK.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13. 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. VOELKER AND THOMAS E. LYNCH, Jlt, OF NEW OltlJFANS, LOUISIANA:

WHIP-LOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. '7', 1908.

Application filed May 13,1907. serial No. 373.474:-

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, GEORGE H. Yonucnn and THOMAS E. LYNCH, J12, citizens of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful ln'iprovements in WVhip-Locks, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention pertains to whip sockets of the lock type; and it consists in a simple, compact and inexpensive device designed to securely retain whip stocks of various sizes in cross-section in a socket and thereby preclude the surreptitious removal of whips from vehicles by unauthorized persons.

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating our device as properly positioned on the whip socket of a vehicle. Fig. 2 is an enlarged View illustrating the device in plan and as open and ready to receive the stock of a whip, and .Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the device taken in the plane indicated by the line 33 of Fig. 2, but showing the device as closed.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, refer-ring to which:

A is a whip socket which may be of the ordinary construction or any other construc tion compatible with the purpose of our invention, and may be arranged on a vehicle in the usual manner or any other preferred manner, and B is our novel locking device as a whole. The said device is in the form of an attachment constructed with a view of being expeditiously and easily fixed on whip sockets of various diameters.

The device illustrated comprises a collar 0 designed to surround a whip socket and having parallel end portions 1) to receive a screw 0 through the mediunr of which the collar is fixed on a whip socket, an upright (Z formed integral with the collar a and having an inturned flange e at its upper end, a horizontally disposed locking jaw f formed integral with the said flange e, and a horizontally swinging locking jaw g pivoted at h to the flange e and the other jaw f; As best shown in Fig. 2, the locking jaw f is provided in the center of its inner edge with a notch i of right angle form, and the swinging jaw g is provided in the center of its inner edge with a right angle notch j. The jaw j is further provided at its free or outer end with an enlarged portion /t', and in said enlarged portion are formed a plurality of apertures L arranged in an arc of a circle as illustrated. The jaw g is provided at its free end with an extension m, and in the said extension is provided an aperture n designed to register with one of the apertures Z in the jaw] to receive the bow p of a padlock, or any other means that may be employed to secure the swinging jaw 9 against movement with. respect to the fixed jaw f.

in the practical use of our improvements, the stock of a whip is passed downward between the jaws g and f of the locking device, while the aw g is open as shown in Fig. 2, and is seated in the socket A in the ordinary well known manner. The aw g is then closed upon the whip stock until thesaid stock is securely grasped between the two jaws, when the bow of the padlock or the other means employed to lix the jaw g with respect to the jaw f is fastened in the aperture a of aw and the particular aperture Z in jawf with which the aperture a registers. With this done it will be apparent that the jaws f and 9' will cooperate to hold the whip stock down in the socket A, and consequently no one is able to remove the whip except the authorized party who carries the key to the lock. to the vehicle and desires to release the whip so that the same may be expeditiously re moved from the socket as occasion demands, it will be seen that all that it is necessary for said party to do is to open and remove the lock U.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the jaw g or rather the swinging end thereof may be fastened to the jaw f at various points, and consequently the device may be made to receive and properly retain whip stocks of various diameters, and. in this connection it will be apparent that the right angle formation of the notches i aml in the two jaws will enable the said notches to properly lit and retain in the socket A whip stocks of various diameters.

it will be gathered from the foregoing that our novel device is simple and compact in construction and neat in appearance, and that when nickel-plated or otherwise embellished, the device is calculated to enhance hen, however, such party returns rather than detract from the finished appearance of a buggy or other vehicle.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent,

A whip-locking device for use on whip sockets, comprising a collar formed of a single piece of material and having parallel end portions, means connecting said end portions, an upright formed integral with and rising from said collar at a point opposite the parallel end portions, a jaw formed integral with and arranged at a right angle to the said upright and having a notch of right angle form in its inner edge at an intermediate point of its length and also having an enlargement at its outer end and a plurality of apertures arranged in the arc of a angle form in its inner edge at an intermediate point of its length and also having an aperture arranged to be registered with the diflerent apertures of the fixed jaw, and a lock detachably secured in the registered apertures of the jaws.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE H. VOELKER. THOMAS E. LYNCH, JR.

Witnesses:

A. BITTER, WILBUR J. DINKEL. 

